McCain: Turkish ambassador should get 'the hell out'

20 May 2017, 12:06 | Anna Nguyen

The VOA shows that the member of Erdogan's team who went off to where the violence erupted came back (at around 1:14 in the clip) as the longtime leader in Ankara left his vehicle and looked at the scene before heading inside.

Earlier on Tuesday, Erdogan met with President Donald Trump at the White House, where the two leaders vowed to fix their countries' relationship and re-establish an economic and military partnership.

Turkey is ready to retaliate if it faces a threat from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and will not shirk from launching a military campaign if need be, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.

Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham said in a news conference on Wednesday that police had a good idea of most of the assailants' identities and were investigating with the Secret Service and State Department.

Two people were arrested as the result of the incident, which left a total of nine people injured - two of whom were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

After the fighting, Ceren Borazan, 26, told BuzzFeed News that one of Erdogan's bodyguards held her neck and threatened to kill her during the clash. In addition, "the U.S. Department of State is working closely with local authorities concerning this incident".

Witnesses described what happened at the scene.

"People have the right in our country to peacefully demonstrate, and they were peacefully demonstrating", said McCain. "Someone was beating me in the head nonstop", she said.

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The Turkish security officials were briefly detained at the site of the protest by US law enforcement for their role in the altercation. They were assaulting these people on United States soil.Turkish Ambassador should be kicked out of country. "We just celebrated our President".

"In the same way, we should never allow those groups who want to change the ethnic or religious structures in the region to use terrorism as a pretext".

Speaking in Istanbul two days after meeting President Donald Trump in Washington, Erdogan criticized the US decision to ally with "terror organizations" for the long-awaited operation to capture Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group.

Turkey considers the People's Protection Units or YPG in Syria a terror organization an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has waged a three-decade long insurgency against the Turkish state, seeking their own nation.

And that's what we saw playing out later that day near the Turkish embassy grounds, when otherwise peaceful protesters were set upon by Turkish government thugs.

"You can not have that happen in the United States of America".

The US State Department said it is "concerned by the violent incidents involving protestors and Turkish security personnel".

"We should throw their ambassador the hell out of the United States of America", McCain toldMSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday. "To send a clear message that these acts of violence will not be tolerated, I ask that you immediately look into this matter and bring all appropriate criminal charges before these individuals leave the United States".

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